bones 4
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Bones, journal for contemporary haiku no 4, 2014TRANSCRIPT
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No. 4
June15, 2014
onesjournal for contemporary haiku
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Single ku /
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maybe in my amygdala maybe a minefield
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I think it’s Saturn cicadas
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the hand-paintedsign says we cancontrol blackberries
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moon landing... the ninth robin joins in D minor
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what remains of the fog skeletons
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arching rainbow lassoes the hospital
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inside a seagull´s cry my other life
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walking homenot changingfrom dead catto ripe guava
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sixdecadesinsidethisprimatecostumeIshache
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the addict bursting open their secrets red poppies
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her storm cloud blindsided by a daisy wheel
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bait & switch the thorns in my mind
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sit on a pray mat I found God shivers in the flood
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speed of nightsomewhere beyond big bangi am a unicorn
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permission to print my ears
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since the trafficking her imagines herself somewhere else
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casting a shadow onthe ceiling a crane flystuck to the bulb
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your corpse dissolving under my tongue
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Hazy semiotics:Red lipstickon red lips.
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He knowsone hundred and oneindustrial sounds
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after christ the trackless blue
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mute megaphones the red tongue of Kali
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periwinkle she adds the ocean to her collection
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mother a shell in the hollow of my hand
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control no control prophylactic liferaft atoll
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gliding over poolson the sluice room floora white swa b
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i am just a few vowels
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on the backs of dinosaursChevys and Fords
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greyish pondwhere the amygdala comesto drink
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semanticscrows chase the one who hasfound something
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new mallsnew alms
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that being said a crow over morning coffee
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weeds grow in broken cement boys afloat
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funeral for a suicideI skate the razoracross my face
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HE LPcarved into her thighs
blood moon
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opiates floating no top hat off the streets
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cut backs to the wind four sheets in A&E
(if you are completely drunk ‘unconscious’ the British say you are 4 sheets to the wind. A&E is the emergency room)
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nine timesout of tenyour jacaranda
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spiderling rope paths through the lobster pot
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hummingbird stopsat me in a pink tee seeinghow Bosch saw
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round the corner a new asphalt driveway dental scaling day
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eulogy jaws of fingers eat their own words
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back inside his car the clown removes my flesh
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can only draw explosions the command to be
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searchlights the prison yard scannedfor viruses
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ashasash
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F sharp minora slight swelling in the wet
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swan a noun coined to swim upstream
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the meme from your photo blowfish
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our lake every time the edge off a stone
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the pallor of this candle pending
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gazelle girlten word vocabularylet’s plan a disaster
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SeQuences /
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Score and bundle subprime sublime,
Divide by small print side-effects,
Subtract the accruals of disposable attention spans,
Square by regulatory buy-in,
Systemize, Systemize, Systemize.
Add native analytics,
Exponentiate cryptographic protocols,
Multiply by stock options over Alprazolam,
Yotta- it,
Authenticate.
10 COMMANDMENTS
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The Goldilocks Zone
plastic daffodilsthe centerpieceof our small talk
more and moredeadpanpraying mantis
birdlessno one to callme back to myself
froston the windowencryption error
The Goldilocks Zoneno timeto get comfortable
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chilled walls
first train run the warbler’s dwindling diet of ice
round my prayers a skirt of marble veins
into a pink root a hammer on carried walls
knots in my beret to a bagel shop
silent crane on Broadway anguished over bedded stones
a hump colors the homeless man
hard rain trill the deacon’s soaked collar
fraying her Chihuahua’s eyes purple nails
his blackened lips the flame beggars
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Cloaks
prognosisher husband won’t meetthe doctor’s eyes
fallinginto silence -autumn yellows
home againand the static from the newspushing away
sprinkler hiss -into empty sentences the fullness of words
resounding deep within the cat’s purr bone cancer
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Supermarket
a topless cage on wheelsnaked birdbodies wrapped in plastic
two twelve or thirteenyear old girls sneak a selfiecondoms on a shelf
“Spill on aisle four”extra extra virgin olive oil
canned goods one boyrepeats every word anotherboy says
“Talks Break Down” a headline at the checkout, chickenbreasts scanned
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Rabia’s Hem
does love leavethe burning pathashless
blindedto the day’s streetsto night’s claims
surrenderedmoments scatternight embers
ashes shornwhat light ignitesthese lungs
none butthe one whose whisperlights the match
o the onewhose whisperquakes
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SINGLE HAIKU
4 eve luckring5 J. D. Nelson6 Chris Gordon7 Paresh Tiwari8 Mark Holloway9 susan burch10 Susan Diridoni11 Marcus Liljedahl12 Mary Weiler13 LeRoy Gorman14 Joann Grisetti 15 helen buckingham16 Cherie Hunter Day17 Ken Sawitri18 Dietmar Tauchner19 Stella Pierides20 Dan Schwerin21 Chris Gordon23 Brendan Slater24 Ali Znaidi25 Bruce England26 Joseph Aversano27 Marcus Liljedahl28 Jennifer Sutherland29 Sheila Windsor30 Michael Nickles-Wisdom31 Sara Winteridge32 Roland Packer
33 linda ashok34 Gregory Longenecker35 Michael Nickles-Wisdom36 Cherie Hunter Day37 Andrea Cecon38 Christina Nguyen39 Jennine Scarboro41 LeRoy Gorman42 Mary Weiler43 Susan Diridoni44 Sara Winteridge45 Chris Gordon46 Bill Cooper47 Donna Fleischer48 Olivier Schopfer49 Kemar Cummings50 John McManus51 Joseph Aversano52 Johnny Baranski53 eve luckring54 eve luckring55 helen buckingham56 Deborah p. Kolodji57 Dan Schwerin58 Stella Pierides59 Cherie Hunter Day60 Chris Gordon
SEQUENCES
62 eve luckring63 Peter Newton65 Alegria Imperial66 Stewart C. Baker67 Peter Yovu68 Susan Diridoni
GRAPHICS: Chris Gordon
Editors:Aditya BahlAlan SummersJohannes S. H. Bjerg
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